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After scrolling with the mouse while pressing Ctrl in Nautilus, my icons for mounted hard drives have increased to the maximum size. (They are parallel to the thumbnails' view size, which looks like a bug to me. The size remains after a restart.) Anyway, I'd like to hide them. How can I do that?

muru
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Joe Schraube
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Open Terminal and run the following command:

gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.desktop volumes-visible 'false'

Alternatively, if you have (GNOME) Tweaks installed, you can use it to disable 'Mounted Volumes' under Desktop:

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This won't work for Ubuntu 19.04 and later as desktop icons are handled by a GNOME Shell extension instead of Nautilus for those releases.

pomsky
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    the command just works like charm – Mahesh Jamdade Jul 07 '19 at 06:56
  • Doesn't work anymore in Ubuntu 19.10 – Matthieu Nov 08 '19 at 10:04
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    @Matthieu Yes, this won't work for Ubuntu 19.04 and later as desktop icons are handled by a GNOME Shell extension instead of Nautilus for those releases. – pomsky Nov 08 '19 at 11:06
  • What is yout theme? – momo2047 Apr 27 '20 at 00:56
  • @e-info128 I don't remember exactly, the screenshot is much older than the answer. Most probably a forked Arc theme. – pomsky Apr 27 '20 at 10:52
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    @Kohjah Does it actually have an option to disable drives? Last time I checked (long time ago), it only had enable/disable options for home folder and trash icon. If there is an option for mounted drives now, please post a new answer with details and preferably a screenshot. That would be valuable and much appreciated. – pomsky Apr 27 '20 at 10:59
  • Ubuntu 20.04: dconf-editor/org/gnome/shell/extensions/dash-to-dock/show-mounts ->disable – MinhajulAnwar Sep 11 '21 at 05:21
  • @Minhaj The question was about hiding the icons from the desktop, not from the dock as you suggest. – pomsky Sep 11 '21 at 07:20
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For Ubuntu 19.10, the following commands does the trick:

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock show-mounts false
Vineus
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For Ubuntu 20.04 up to Ubuntu 20.10:

  1. Open the dconf editor, or if you don't have it installed, install it from the software center
  2. Click "org"
  3. Click "gnome"
  4. Click "shell"
  5. Click "extension"
  6. Click "desktop icons"

Then, on the window, disable the show-mount option, and you are done.

P.S.: If you want to disable the dock mount icon go back and click dash-to-dock option in the extension section of previous step and from there around the bottom disable the show-mount option.

Location link is: /org/gnome/shell/extensions/desktop-icons/

Notice: On Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu on wayland: there seems to be no option show-mount.

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Yohannes Sisay
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  • "then on the window" in step 6 - there is no entry for the mounted drive I'm looking for. I did find the option dash-to-dock but it's called "show-mounts" and applies to ALL mounted drives (which I'd like to keep as icons). Man... Ubuntu. Why are these things so hard? – Stefan Reich Jun 12 '21 at 02:57
  • well, at least ubuntu( Linux generally) gives you these options to modify these settings and a great community like this will always help you...bruh the more you use Linux the more it became addictive btw. – Yohannes Sisay Jun 13 '21 at 06:41
  • I'm all for Linux but it still has to be said that there is room for improvement! – Stefan Reich Jun 13 '21 at 21:42
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This answer might be useful for people using multiple monitors (tested on two monitors) with Ubuntu 19.10 and above.

Run the following command as mentioned in the other answers,

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock show-mounts false

After you run this, your entire dock might get hidden in the secondary monitors (will be visible only one of the monitors).

To circumvent this, restart the gnome-shell*.

This can be done by pressing Alt+F2, typing r and hit enter. Once the gnome-shell restarts you should have the dock restored in the other monitors.

*If you're on Wayland, you may need to restart the shell by logging out and logging in.

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Search for "Ubuntu Desktop" (is in settings)

There you can click on "Configure dock behavior" This opens a new window where you can select which drives to show (or hide all)

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If you are on Ubuntu 19+:

1) Go to your menu and search for a program called [Desktop Settings] or [Desktop Icons]

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2) Slide mounted drives so it is greyed out

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